Posted 04 September 2012

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Hey there folks. You may notice something a little different about the PlayStation Plus update this week. Yes, as some of you may have heard, Ross has moved on to pastures new. I hope you’ll all join me in wishing him well in all his future endeavours – we’ll miss having him around! Ross 2.0 will be along soon enough, but in the meantime I’ve stepped into the breach and will be keeping you informed of the latest updates to your Plus service.

So, without further ado, let’s kick off with your new Game of the Month. As announced at Gamescom last month, from tomorrow until 2nd October you can pick up Rockstar’s epic open world Western adventure Red Dead Redemption. Rightly hailed as one of the finest games of this console generation, it’s an absolutely unmissable experience. If you haven’t played it yet, you’re in for one heck of a treat. And if you have, the multiplayer community is still very active. Jump in.

Next up, from 12th September until 4th December, you can download retro-fabulous side-scrolling beat ’em up Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. It’s a rare movie tie-in that is every bit the equal of its source material, and a delightful nostalgia hit for anyone raised on the likes of Streets of Rage or Double Dragon.

And speaking of which, Double Dragon Neon is your third game of the month, downloadable soon. Developed by the seriously talented Wayforward Technologies (Bloodrayne: Betrayal, Mighty Flip Champs! DX and the forthcoming Silent Hill: Book of Memories), it’s a hypercolourful reboot of the classic arcade punch-up. Should be a good ‘un.

Finally, the next game in our PlayStation Plus Presents indie initiative is the wonderful point and click puzzler Machinarium. It’s one of the finest adventure games of recent years, and sports some stunning art design to boot. I’m a big fan of this one – be sure to check it out.

Running out of space for all these great titles? Fear not. We don’t have a confirmed date for you today, but as promised at Gamescom, your cloud storage limit will be increased to 1GB later this month. I’ll let you know when that goes live.

And finally, if you’re not yet a Plus subscriber, your excuses for not signing up are starting to run out. From 5th to 19th September a 365 day subscription is on sale at 25% off – that’s €37.49/£29.99, down from €49.99/£39.99. Current subscribers take note – annual subscriptions stack, so you can also take advantage of the reduced price.

Myself and the store team will do our best to answer any questions you have below. Fire away.

Pretty disappointed that the rdr dlc doesn’t have plus discount. Thought that was meant for those of us that already have the game. I had deus ex, and had dead space but at least I could get the dlc cheap. This puts a mark in the negative column for ps plus.

Bleh. Red Dead is glitchy, incredibly easy and tedious. Scott Pilgrim is awful and obnoxious (and the horrible teenybopper trendy version of what it is actually retro). Double Dragon miiight be fun. The Wayforward folks have some talent.

Yeah there’s two games mid month… he already mentioned them! Scott Pilgrim, and Double Dragon, they stay until December, which is when the Instant game collection will get rid of them, so they are the mid month treats this time.

please dont forget about Rock of ages for ZA.If its not gonna happen, will we get a comp game?I recall Germany getting Street fighter Alpha 2 in place of RE:DC, or something on that line, a while back.

Thinking of signing up to take advantage of the great discount being offered this month.

Unfortunately however, signing up now means that I’ve missed out on some games that were previously offered which I haven’t played, e.g. Darksiders, Deus Ex etc – whereas I’ve played and own 8 or 9 of the 10 or so available as part of the instant game collection currently.

Therefore, my question is, is there a chance that such games will be offered for free again to PS+ subscribers in the future? So that those who missed them first time around have a chance to get them.

How about bringin PS Plus to Vita. I was hoping to see it arive together with the announcement for the PS Plus sale. Now there is no incentive to get PS Plus against reduction price as I do not know what is coming for the PS Vita. I do not own a PS3. Could you inform us a little more regarding the Timetable when PS Plus will be supported for the PS Vita just like the PS3 (like instant game collection)?

I’m not running our of save game space, I’m running out of disk space..Just to be sure.. Right now I download every game and cancel it, just to be sure it is activated and in my download list, but do I have to do that, or are games released during my PS+ membership automatically added to en ‘entitled’ list to download later?

So where is the Vita Plus update, or is it like so many prommisses made at gamescom just BS (like the video stores we all would get in 2010).I love seeing Machinarium in that list. There are loads of shooters and beat’m ups but adventures are not that commen in the Plus lib.

“Running out of space for all these great titles? Fear not. We don’t have a confirmed date for you today, but as promised at Gamescom, your cloud storage limit will be increased to 1GB later this month. I’ll let you know when that goes live.”

Does this mean we can stream games from the cloud?I heard that Sony had bought or were thinking of Buying one of the cloud gaming companies. Being able to stream the PSN games would be AWESOME!!!

This is incredible value but not to sound greedy, Are we still getting dynamic themes/Avatars? Also what is the HDD limit on the PS3? Can i put a 2TB HDD in the console? I have over 130 PS3 games that excludes the 40+ psone and 60+ minis. Include the updates and such and I fear I wouldn’t have much of a 1TB hdd left. :(

Pretty disappointed to not see tony hawk hd in plus discounts. The only game on PSN I have been interested in, in months. My plus sub runs out in just a few days. I think you’re gonna need to pull more than a rabbit out of a hat to get me to renew. I have also noticed nearly all my friends that had plus have let it go lately.The whole “instant game collection” is all well and good, but I think if you can afford to throw $$ away on plus, you can usually afford to buy games when they are released. I either have each of those games on disc or, am completely uninterested.“If” vita games were added to the instant collection, I might continue, and buy a Vita. ;)But, at this stage, i am yet to actually play a game that i have acquired through plus, for more than an hour. And I’ve had Plus since day 1./rant